Your addition on the other thread. This is very serious, that they were mentioned by the UN Committee Against Torture. This town has something wrong going on. The pressure needs to be kept up:
Please read this: The 1997 Justice Dept lawsuit against Steubenville, Petition to remove Jane Hanlin as city attorney and possibly disbarment. There may be proof now that she did in fact offer immunity or at least a guarantee not to prosecute those who helped her.
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In 1997 the DOJ filed a "pattern or practice" lawsuit under the 1994 Violent Crime and Civil Rights Abuses Act. Their town of 15k beat LA, Detroit, New Orleans & Philadelphia for abuses. They were monitored by the DOJ from 1997-2003 and forced to make changes (many existing officers left the force rather than comply) They had 48 civil rights lawsuits the 20 yrs prior.
"In its complaint, the Justice Department alleges the city and the police department have engaged in a pattern or practice of subjecting individuals to excessive force, false arrests, charges, and reports, improper stops, searches, and seizures. The complaint states that Steubenville officials have caused and condoned this conduct through their inadequate use-of-force policies; inappropriate off-duty-conduct policies; and failure to supervise, train, discipline, monitor and investigate police officers and alleged misconduct.
Among the offenses, Steubenville police officers allegedly used excessive force against individuals who witnessed incidents of police misconduct, who were known critics of the department or were disliked by individual officers, and who were falsely arrested or charged persons believed likely to complain of abuse. Further, officers allegedly falsified reports and tampered with official police recorders so that misconduct would not be recorded."
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/reports98/police/uspo36.htm
They were even mentioned at the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva by Chief of Staff to the Asst. AG for Civil Rights, DOJ William Yeomans.
Here is a link to a petition to remove Jane Hanlin. The prosecutor who allegedly tried to talk the girl and her family out of pressing charges. Who supposedly offered immnunity to a couple of individuals, THEN recused herself.
http://bigideaohio.blogspot.com/
This explains how the coach felt free to threaten the reporter and anyone he knew for daring to speak. Dangerous criminal actions.
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